A rock legend and former Truro resident will be playing in Plymouth after announcing his latest tour.

Queen drummer, Roger Taylor, who was born and grew up in Truro, has announced a new tour which will see the rock legend play a gig at Plymouth Pavilions.

Taylor made the surprise announcement today (June 1) that he will play a UK solo tour this Autumn, introducing brand new material and revisiting some of his very own Queen classics.

With the pandemic putting Queen + Adam Lambert’s epic UK and European tour on pause until 2022, the acclaimed drummer has decided to hit the road for a set of intimate shows.

The upcoming concerts will showcase his percussive, vocal and songwriting talents that have been integral to Queen’s live and recorded output since 1970.

Marking his first live performances outside Queen in over two decades, Taylor will tour the UK across October 2021 playing 14 shows that include a date at Plymouth and will coincide with the release of his latest solo album Outsider on October 1.

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Taylor said: "For some time now, we’ve all just been trying to get by.

"Now, it’s back to the basics, myself and some great musical pals getting back out there to play some rock.

"Obviously we’ll include some of the Queen classic catalogue, and some of my earlier solo work, but we’ll also be introducing them to some of the new stuff.

"So we hope folks are going to come on down."

While Taylor doesn't permanently in the county, he still has a house in Helford and has previously claimed that there's always something that calls him back to the sea.

Taylor first started playing in bands while he was at school in Truro and has played a number of venues across the Cornish county in places such as St Just, Liskeard, Falmouth, Truro and Newquay.

Full dates for the Outsider Tour are as follows:

Sat 2 October: Newcastle, O2 Academy

Sun 3 October: Manchester, O2 Academy

Tue 5 October: York, Barbican

Wed 6 October: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall

Fri 8 October: Liverpool, O2 Academy

Sat 9 October: Norwich, University East Anglia (UEA)

Mon 11 October: Bath, Forum

Tue 12 October: Bournemouth, O2 Academy

Thu 14 October: Plymouth, Pavilions

Fri 15 October: Nottingham, Rock City

Sun 17 October: Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion

Tue 19 October: Guildford, G Live

Wed 20 October: Coventry, HMV Empire

Fri 22 October: London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire